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The Vomit Comic Robot Literally Spits Randomly Generated Comics from Its Mouth

Cadin Batrack

Press a button and the Vomit Comic Robot generates a one-off random comic and spits it from its mouth on receipt paper. Created by Cadin Batrack, the machine combines a Raspberry Pi, a thermal printer and a laser-cut plywood body. Processing software arranges hand-drawn elements into comic panels at random. There is no intended narrative relationship between the images, but the comic layout encourages people to invent one anyway. Even the physical output mechanism reinforces the joke: the robot appears to vomit nonsense comics on demand.

ファニトロちゃん:悪だくみ

A thermal printer would have worked, but giving the output a robot body and calling it vomiting makes the interface impossible to ignore.

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Source published 2018.05.30

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